{"id":65440,"date":"2022-04-13T12:56:27","date_gmt":"2022-04-13T10:56:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/?p=65440"},"modified":"2022-04-13T12:56:27","modified_gmt":"2022-04-13T10:56:27","slug":"formation-of-cape-forum-a-blast-from-south-africas-apartheid-past","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/formation-of-cape-forum-a-blast-from-south-africas-apartheid-past\/","title":{"rendered":"Formation Of Cape Forum A Blast From South Africa’s Apartheid Past"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Umamah Bakharia\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

Nationalism has paid off for successive ruling groups, notably the Afrikaner nationalists and the African nationalists.<\/p>\n

The culture was central to Afrikaner nationalism, and AfriForum’s politics and the formation of the Cape Forum can be seen as neo-nationalist remnants of this, writes Professor Christi van der Westhuizen, Professor at the Centre for the Advancement of Non-Racialism and Democracy at the Nelson Mandela University and the author of White Power & the Rise and Fall of the National Party.<\/p>\n

Speaking to Radio Islam<\/strong><\/em>, Professor van der Westhuizen says that\u00a0the formation of the Cape Forum is a blast from our apartheid past.<\/p>\n

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“It basically created a parallel organisation specifically aimed at organising people who were known as ‘coloured’ under apartheid in the Cape province,” says Professor van der Westhuizen.<\/p>\n

She adds that this is a replica of the ‘tri cameral parliament’ arrangements which included coloured and Indian people alongside white people in parliament, however, each race dealt with its own issues.<\/p>\n

“So this idea of own affairs is basically where [there is] a cultural division of people [or] you use culture to say that people are so different in their cultures that they cant make joint decisions about [issues] and therefore they must be parked in their own parliamentary chamber,” says Professor van der Westhuizen.<\/p>\n

She says that the formation of such parties becomes an issue when organisations aim to aggregate Afrikaners.<\/p>\n

“When we look at the Cape Forum it would seem definite as though the initiative is coming from AfriForum [who sees an opportunity],” says Professor\u00a0van der Westhuizen.<\/p>\n

She believes that AfriForum is trying to gain something out of the Cape Forum.<\/p>\n